Synonyms of the word supple


SUPPLEALTER - CHANGE - FLEXIBLE - FLEXILE - GRACEFUL - LIMBER - LISSOM - LISSOME - LITHE - LITHESOME - MODIFY - SLENDER - SVELTE - SYLPHLIKE

supple

  • adj. pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
  • adj. lithe and agile when moving and bending.
  • adj. compliant; yielding to the will of others.
  • v. To make or become supple.
  • v. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

flexible

  • adj. Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking;…
  • adj. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;…
  • adj. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic.
  • n. (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.

flexile

  • adj. flexible.
  • adj. Capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.

graceful

  • adj. Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

limber

  • adj. Flexible, pliant, bendable.
  • v. To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
  • n. (obsolete) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used to pull an artillery piece into battle.
  • n. (in the plural) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
  • n. (military) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft…
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to allow water to pass to the…
  • v. (obsolete) To prepare an artillery piece for transportation (i.e., to attach it to its limber.).

lissom

  • adj. Alternative form of lissome.

lissome

  • adj. lithe; quick and graceful in movement.

lithe

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mild; calm.
  • adj. slim but not skinny.
  • adj. Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To attend; listen.
  • v. (transitive) To listen to.
  • n. (Scotland) Shelter.

lithesome

  • adj. Lithe.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

slender

  • adj. Thin; slim.
  • adj. (figuratively) meagre; deficient.
  • adj. (Gaelic languages) Palatalized.

svelte

  • adj. Attractively thin; gracefully slender.
  • adj. Refined, delicate.

sylphlike

  • adj. Resembling (that of) a sylph; slender and graceful.

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